Developing Proactive Parent/Professional Partnerships

Description: Participants will discuss how to empower parents to be advocates and teachers for their children by developing relationships that allow both the professional and parent to be proactive. Topics covered include the grief process of parents of a child with a disability, adult learning theory/ how to teach adults, and behavior management. Participants will learn strategies and techniques for planning and implementing parent participation sessions including ways to incorporate auditory-verbal techniques into educational sessions at various ages. Participants will watch and analyze parent session videos.

Biographies: Hannah Eskridge, MSP, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert AVT, is the Director of CASTLE in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the University of North Carolina. She directs the Professional Training Program as well as coordinates staff and various other programs. Hannah also conducts Auditory Verbal Therapy and is working with Holly Teagle on a multi-center research study led by NIH. Hannah earned her Master’s Degree from the University of South Carolina in Columbia in the Auditory Verbal track. She currently serves as President-Elect on the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Chapter of AG Bell and is an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Djenne-amal Morris is a Parent Educator/Training Coordinator at BEGINNINGS for Parents of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology/Sociology from Clark University in MA. She has had extensive experience working with families of special needs children, teaching parent training workshops and has been a Deaf-blind Family Specialist for the past 6 years. She and her husband have also served in several ministry capacities. Djenne is the mother of three children, including a Deaf-blind multi-handicapped son with CHARGE Syndrome.

Kimberly Andrews, M.S., CCC-SLP is a Speech Language Pathologist and Project Coordinator for Project EAR (Enrichment through Auditory-Oral Resources) housed at East Carolina University. In her 10 years at Pitt County Memorial Hospital she served on the Cochlear Implant Team of Eastern Carolina and worked with children and adults with a variety of impairments.

Location:

Western NCSD Chapel Basement

517 W. Fleming St.

Morganton, NC 28655

Details:
1. There is NO COST for NC Professionals; $50 for out-of-state attendees
2. Non ASHA CEU’s will be offered for all workshops.
3. (*) LSLS approved workshop (pending)
4. To Register: www.ncbegin.org (registration deadline = 2 weeks prior to workshop)